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Others less superstitious supposed, that had it been possible to search the gulf of the Corri Dhu, the profound deeps of the lake, or the whelming eddies of the river, the remains of Elspat MacTavish might have been discovered as nothing was more natural, considering her state of body and mind, than that she should have fallen in by accident, or precipitated herself intentionally, into one or other of those places of sure destruction.
The graves of the slain are still to be seen in that little corri, or bottom, on the opposite side of the burn if your eyes are good, you may see the green specks among the heather. See, there is an earn, which you Southrons call an eagle you have no such birds as that in England he is going to fetch his supper from the Laird of Bradwardine's braes, but I'll send a slug after him.
He answered, "No, you kept them up, you drunken dog:" this he said with good-humoured English pleasantry. Soon afterwards, Corrichatachin, Col, and other friends assembled round my bed. Corri had a brandy bottle and glass with him, and insisted I should take a dram. "Ay," said Dr Johnson, "fill him drunk again. Do it in the morning, that we may laugh at him all day.
I rose early, and played four or five hours, as usual, on the piano, and had lessons from Corri, an Italian, who taught carelessly, and did not correct a habit I had of thumping so as to break the strings; but I learned to tune a piano and mend the strings, as there was no tuner at Burntisland.
Armitage went off for two days to Milan, and returned transformed in dress, looking the very beau- ideal of an handsome Englishman, and the people at Bellaggio who had known him as the wandering landscape painter "Pietro Corri" failed to recognise him now in his true self.
Soon afterwards, Corrichatachin, Col, and other friends assembled round my bed. Corri had a brandy-bottle and glass with him, and insisted I should take a dram. 'Ay, said Dr. Johnson, fill him drunk again. Do it in the morning, that we may laugh at him all day.
I determined to lose myself and my name too no one knows me here as Pierce Armitage, I'm Pietro Corri for all the English amateur art-lovers in Italy!" He laughed rather bitterly. "I think I lost a good deal more than myself and my name!" he went on. "I believe if I had stayed in England I should have won something of a reputation.
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